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The Ground Zero mosque is getting all the attention, but it’s far from the only controversial building with a planned location near the World Trade Center site. Victims’ families are being asked to donate photos and mementos to the 9/11 museum being built underground in the Trade Center's foundation pit and scheduled to open in two years—and while many are complying, some denounce the museum as bringing too much attention to the terrorists. Others aren’t happy that unidentified remains will be kept in a "memorial wall" there.

Museum officials say only 2% of the space will be devoted to the terrorists, and insist that explaining their role will help debunk conspiracy theories. Experts on memorials say it may be too soon to build a museum without conflict, but that hasn’t stopped some families from donating items: USA Today has poignant stories of a few, like the pocketbook one sister always carried, and a cell phone bill showing the last time a wife spoke to her husband.

The thing about Mosques is that no body wants the damn things on our soil. You get these Muslims and even after 9/11 they still don't understand that we are pissed and don't want them or their damn Mosques anywhere near us. If we could, we'd tell them all to go back and pray where they are from originally, I mean, who want's them here really? I don't.

mongre

Aug 20, 2010 12:15 PM CDT

9/11 was an inside job. Let's put up a museum to commemorate the biggest hoax in the history of the world! At least it will be honest.

webgrunt

Aug 20, 2010 11:17 AM CDT

Regarding the whole mosque near ground zero issue: 1. The building proposed is not a Mosque but an Islamic community center, which would look like any other 14-story building in New York, not like a Mosque. 2. The proposed building site is not visible from ground zero or anywhere on the WTC campus. You would not be able to see the building from any part of what was the world trade center, and if you did you would not be able to tell it had anything to do with Islam. 3. Even building the world's largest MOSQUE right dead-center at ground zero is not insensitive in any way unless you're a brainless bigot. There are 1.7 billion Muslims in the world, several million of whom are in the USA, and only a handful of them happen to be terrorists (not to mention that there are plenty of terrorists in the world who aren't Muslim), so blaming Islam for terrorism is senseless and moronic. 4. Fighting the building of any Islamic structure by Islamic Americans anywhere in the US is not fighting terrorists, it's fighting our fellow Americans. When we start fighting each other instead of the actual terrorists, you might as well wave the white flag to bin Laden, because the terrorists have succeeded in tearing America apart and setting us against each other.